Justin Bieber made a surprise appearance at the Rolling Loud music festival in California on Saturday (04.03.23).

Netflix is in production on a documentary series about the global hunt for 1970s disgraced pop star Gary Glitter.

Australian guitarist Joe Matera will release his next album through Philip Israel’s Possum Records.

Lionel Richie is finally going on tour with Earth, Wind & Fire.

Duane McDonald’s Red Hot Summer tour is achieving record crowds in its 2023 season.

Gary Rossington, the last remaining original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died at age 76.

Before I start, please refer back to my Richard Marx review of 2016. It is no accident Richard Marx performs great concerts. The structure of his songs is faultless. He writes his songs, he sings the songs, he produces the songs, he performs the songs. You cannot get more real than Richard Marx. There are no smoke and mirrors. Richard is driving this Marx bus.

Harry Styles' tour of Australia has helped his third album "Harry's House" back to the No.1 spot locally, its ninth overall week at the top.

Brian Perkins, a founding member of Australia’s original “boy band”, Rock and Roll legends The Delltones, has died.

Australia’s Cate Blanchett is the star of the new Sparks video ‘The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte’. Cate performs a wild dance while Russell Mael sings behind her and his brother and Sparks’ co-founder Ron Mael sits behind with a latte, gets up to clean wipe his table, sits down again and then stands up.

Matchbox Twenty will have a new song ‘Wild Dogs (Running In A Slow Dream)’ coming 17 March.

Harry Styles has been popping out the Rickie Lee Jones song ‘The Horses’ on his Australian tour as an Aussie anthem because it was such a big hit for Australia’s Daryl Braithwaite. At the Sydney show, Daryl joined Harry on stage.

Ed Sheeran has broken the attendance record for ticket sales in Melbourne beating the record he set just the day before.

Neil Young will release another two albums from his archives in April 2023. ‘Somewhere Under The Rainbow’ was recorded at London’s Rainbow Theatre in 1973 and ‘High Flyin’ is the shortlived project as The Ducks, recorded in California in 1977.

David Lindley, best known for his work with Jackson Browne, has died at age 78.

27 years after the passing of Eva Cassidy, her songs have been reimagined with the London Symphony Orchestra.

New dates have been added for The Smashing Pumpkins ‘The World Is A Vampire’ tour and some previous ones changed.

Holy Holy have a new song ‘Messed Up’ featuring New Zealand rapper Kwame.

It was no coincidence that the first Melbourne show for Ed Sheeran on his current Australian tour was scheduled for March 2. March 2, 2023 marked the second anniversary of the Mushroom founders passing.

Steve Mackay, the bass player for UK band Pulp, has died at age 56.

Sticky Fingers have been removed from Bluesfest following public outcry in recent weeks and the withdrawal of major acts King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and Sampa The Great over the addition of the band.

Extreme have their first album since ‘Saudades de Rock’ in 2008 coming on June 9. The sixth Extreme album is called ‘Six’. The first single is ‘Rise’.

Foo Fighters will perform their first show since the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins on 24 May 2023.

Roger Waters’ May 28 concert in Frankfurt, Germany has been cancelled with The City of Frankfurt citing Waters’ ongoing “anti-Israel behaviour” calling him “one of the most widely spread anti-Semites in the world”.

With Metallica’s ‘72 Seasons’ album out 14 April, here is another preview. The new song is ‘If Darkness Had A Son’.

A Billy Connolly Art Exhibition will be open in Melbourne from 16 to 26 March.

32 Australian acts, including rock royalty Andrew Farriss of INXS, will showcase at SXSW in Austin Texas this month.

Don Walker will release his first album in 10 years, ‘Lightning in a Clear Blue Sky’ in May.

Regurgitator will perform their 1997 album ‘Unit’ in the 2023 ‘Units’ tour.

In an alternate universe the Graham Gouldman penned The Yardbirds classic ‘For Your Love’ could have been a Beatles song.